Weekend is here means that Sabnis is chilling on his land. Many passing showers so tarped it up. #CatskillsParadise
Still motel weather indeed.

We spend the day on the land until it's dark and cold and then head to a motel. Then return after waking up.

But come June, camping it shall be.

Now that spring has sprung, IDed many of those damned invasive Japanese barberries. And today's workout is going at them with machetes and axes.

Pulling them out by the roots is most satisfying! We can totally Tom Sawyer this experience lol.
#CatskillsParadise
Coming soon to Airbnb Experiences.

For only $49.99, get an excellent cardio and upper body workout in the heavenly Catskills by hacking and pulling out invasive species and helping the natural ecology.
(Machetes & axes will be provided)
Buying wooded land and going at it with our rake, axe, machete is now our workout routine for life! 😂
Some folks were asking for a video of my beloved Hemlock Grove, already my favorite sanctuary. Here it is. Green and serene. #CatskillsParadise
Strolling around, came across a bright red NO TRESPASSING sign and instinctively froze!

Then unfroze after remembering, I'm the one who put it up. 🤭🤭

Still not quite used to being a property owner. Most of my income has gone in experiential assets. 😊
Those signs are basically to deter people from throwing random trash here. It's not a huge problem here but it is *a* problem, because fun fact - garbage collection isn't included in our civic services!
It's a paid service to even dump things. Not just garbage collection.
It's not at all an expensive service. Basically membership fees plus some add ons to run the transfer station.

Dunno how many of you know but there's no public "town dump" concept in most northeastern US counties anymore. It's Transfer Stations or make your own landfill.
You have garbage to get rid of, you either hire a company like Waste Management, which will come take it from you.

Or you take it to the county Transfer Station. Usually costs about $3 per 33 gallon (125 liter) bag of trash. They sift and dump it.
It is kinda mind-blowing to me coming from India that clean natural water is free for me here, as is public school if I had kids, but garbage I have to pay for. 😂😂

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Apr 1
"We've already publicly demonstrated to people what a fraud Hindu Mahasabha is. That this idiotic gang hell-bent on keeping the Varna system constant in a new Hindu Republic hasn't caused their downfall is surprising in itself."

- Dr. Ambedkar, 1927
"But the fact that people from other religions brought back into the fold using "shuddhi" are naive enough to not see through this fraud is indeed surprising! There are 2 examples of people conned by Hindu Mahasabha into converting back to Hinduism that you can find."
"Mr. Naidu, before his Christian days, was one of the "touchable" Hindus. He assumed he would get the same respect once he went through "purification". But contrary to his expectations, he wasn't embraced as such. So he went back to Christianity"
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What is stopping them is exactly what was stopping non Jewish people in the 1930s.

Remember that Germany was one of the most educated & intellectual places in the 1930s.

Nazism spread because "ugich kashala". Why unnecessarily call out people? Just live life, say nice things.
Y'all know how outspoken I am, in my own name, with my own face.

I don't do it to be some martyr or hero. I do it because it seems like the natural thing to do.

But every week at least one "well meaning" friend will send me messages like this.

I'm sure it is genuine concern.
It is a sad commentary on today's India that my tweets are considered brave or risky or whatever.

I'm just doing what any sentient non bigoted Indian should be doing. There's nothing brave there.

And the "risk" is the same, whether you speak up or not, when it's Fascism.
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Much like the hate fueled "lov3j1had" tactic, the economic boycott tactic is also lifted straight from the Nazi playbook.
Not just the basic idea but also how they would quickly spread it far beyond the initial seemingly limited boycotts put in place in the name of patriotism.
89 years literally to this day is when Nazis first started the boycott campaigns.

At that time the idea seemed so unrealistic and preposterous, many centrists and even some Jews initially thought it was an April Fool's joke. Many newspapers also covered it flippantly.
The actual official Nazi boycott just lasted that one day and was called off, giving Goebbels a chance to do his thing of saying how it was just a stern symbolic protest and simply a response to previous anti-Nazi boycotts by emotional Germans feeling needlessly vilified. 🙄🙄
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Mar 31
The other group made a presentation about a company that doesn't even have one clear common name. The students as well as I kept switching between its names. And therein, students said, lies the main problem. With "Facebook or Meta or whatever'.

What business is it in exactly?
Consensus: Facebook is basically a future Yahoo.

Everyone knows Yahoo. No one can define in one line exactly what Yahoo's primary business was!

Google is primarily search+contextual advertising+services.

Amazon is primarily e-commerce+services

Apple is primarily products.
Twitter, for the lack of a better word, is Twitter! Whatever its other troubles, Twitter has shown itself resilient to transitory changes in social network trends, DAU growth be damned.

What exactly is Meta/FB?

It makes 95% money through advertising. But not like Google.
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Mar 31
Fascinating student presentation today on Cosmetics marketing. It was mostly 21 year old women presenting so one of those classes where I learned a lot from them, cos I obviously can't know that world as well, being a 42 year old cishet man.

Influencers extensively discussed!
A fascinating counter-intuitive phenomenon in the world of cosmetics marketing is that there is such a thing as an influencer being TOO influential!

10k-100k followers is the sweet spot. Beyond that, you could actually start losing brands!

Unprecedented in marketing history
What makes Influencer Marketing more key in cosmetics than any other industry is just simple biology. Women have different hair & skin & tastes & priorities etc. So it is by nature, a micro-segmentation friendly industry. You are looking for something very specific to you.
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Mar 31
When I say sanghis follow LITERALLY the Nazi playbook, I do mean LITERALLY. Der Sturmer was a propaganda newspaper pushing stories and cartoons daily dedicated to create the myth of hyper sexualized "trained" Jewish men that seduced Aryan women and did unspeakable things.
All these cartoons and many others are at the Smithsonian Holocaust museum along with many newspaper cuttings and cases of this heinous propaganda. Jewish-Christian relationships in Germany already faced so many hurdles that they were rare & always consensual, in fact brave!
Exactly how a Hindu-Muslim couple in India already faces so many hurdles and literal threats of death, that they are already very rare.

It's not about "protecting women" for sanghis as it wasn't for the Nazis. It's about making the minority subhuman in the eyes of the majority.
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